Kamloops BC

Right from the get go I knew it was going to be a hard day. Emory Creek was a bit short lived but we feel pressure to be somewhere that Ty can work. Provincial parks in Canada, although the most desirable to us, simply don't work. Ty needs his phone and computer to work so he can make his phone calls and respond to emails. Monday morning came around and we needed to get to a camp spot that offered Internet. Next on the map.... Kamloops BC. The drive there was long and we were all grumpy and tired. It was one of those days that we were all just happy to have survived. 

The plan was for Ty to take it easy with us on Tuesday, leave to work the norther portion of his BC territory on Wednesday, return to us on Friday and then as a family make our way towards Banff. The RV park was a bit run down but on the river, met all our needs and we were able to ride our bikes across a bridge and be downtown within 5 minutes. Not bad! Something bad was in the air though. We were all in such terrible moods and little things seemed to keep going wrong. After the kids and I returned home from riding the bucket bike to the farmers market and story hour at the library I saw a note on the table from Ty saying his phone basically started sparking and hissing and wouldn't turn back on. He was out on a bike ride to try and figure things out in his head. Oh no! 

So then the stupid cell phone fiasco began. Things went from bad to worse. Ty started by taking both our phones to a cell phone repair shop. The man thought it was possibly Tys battery so he disassembled both our phones to try my battery in his phone. Didn't work. His phone is fried. Second step, find an unlocked phone on Craigslist. Great! I find one and call to see if it is available only to find that the disassemblement of my phone caused it so I can't hear anything. But! The new phone ends up being available so Ty shows up at 7'11 with $200 and buys the iPhone 4. He tried to put his SIM card in it to make sure it was unlocked but his iPhone 6 SIM card was to big so he took a leap of faith and believed the seller when she promised it was unlocked. Turns out the damn thing isn't unlocked. So here we are! 3 phones that don't work, $200 pretty much thrown away, hundreds of miles from the US and Ty is supposed to work. He couldn't leave us to work without either of us having a working phone. Apparently it wasn't meant to be. All of this crap took a few days and before we knew it it was Thursday, we were still in Kamloops and not really liking the town at all. We needed to get the hell out of there with a quick change of plans. 

Instead of Ty working norther BC right now and him taking a week off work so we could meander our way down through Banff we just need to get to the US as quickly as possible. It's unfortunate that we are so dependent on the Internet and phones. But Tys job is what allows us to travel. Without a phone and Internet his job isn't possible. We will figure all this out for the next time we come spend a long period of time in Canada but for now we just have to leave. I set the map to Kalispell Montana. It should take us 4 days. We will arrive back in the US on Memorial Day. Ty can go to an AT&T store on Tuesday, spend the rest of the week trying to get caught up and then work Montana the following week. We finally have a plan again! Phew! That alone changes our spirits and we are back in this! We plan to stay in Revelstoke tomorrow.